LPSR Valsts drošības komitejas zinātniskās izpētes komisija

Control and repressions of the totalitarian society:
research of the documents and its methodology
The KGB personnel files are not separated from other
nomenclature files of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the LSSR; there is no card files that could
help to extract the necessary information. Therefore, the
analysis of the nomenclature files takes time. Moreover, one
has to take into account that it is necessary to evaluate the
protocols of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the LSSR. These contain information on
matters of state security and the personnel of the KGB.
However, research will not be complete without the files
containing the KGB personnel records starting from the mid-
1960s until 1991. Up to now, the search for these files has
been unsuccessful. Thus, this research has mainly focused on
files from 1944 until 1965.
The personnel files of the KGB officials from 1944
until 1965 testify that those officials actively took part or
even organized the mass deportation on 25 March 1949
while fighting resistance movements. The ‘chekist’ personnel
of the period from 1944 until 1965 could be characterized as
being poorly educated, with most having only primary
education. The majority of them began their ‘chekist’ career
in the middle or late 1930s in the USSR. Some of them had
the experience of ‘chekist’ activities in Latvia during the time
period from 1940 until 1941. Among these KGB officials,
there were former participants of Latvian communist
underground.
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